Part I - Introduction: 1. Social choices and inequalities: Introduction / Mark LANSKY, Jayati GHOSH, Dominique MÉDA and Uma RANI -- Part II - Concepts and conceptions: 2. Equality and empowerment for decent work / Bob HEPPLE -- 3. Discrimination and equality at work : A review of the concepts / Manuela TOMEI -- 4. Inequality at work in the informal economy : Key issues and illustrations / Barbara HARRISS-WHITE -- 5. Distribution of income and job opportunities : Normative judgements from four continents / Deborah LEVISON, Joseph RITTER, Rosamund STOCK and Richard ANKER -- 6. Missing women? The under-recording and under-reporting of women’s work in Malaysia / Anja Karlsson FRANCK and Jerry OLSSON -- 7. Life domain preferences among women and men in Israel: The effect of demographic variables / Moshe SHARABI -- Part III - Female labour force participation: Gender gaps and segregation: 8. Globalization, social exclusion and gender / Marilyn CARR and Marty CHEN -- 9. Closing the gender gap in education : What is the state of gaps in labour force participation for women, wives and mothers / Ina GANGULI, Ricardo HAUSMANN and Martina VIARENGO -- 10. Ethnic wage gaps in Peru : What drives the particular disadvantage of indigenous women ? / Alexandre KOLEV and Pablo SUAREZ ROBLES -- 11. Unlimited unskilled labour and occupational sex segregation in Jamaica, / Heather RICKETTS and David BERNARD -- 12. Falling female labour force participation in Kerala: Empirical evidence of discouragement? / Susan Shalina MATHEW -- 13. Gender equality at work in sub-Saharan Africa : A case study of Mali’s modern sector / Saliha DOUMBIA and Diminique MEURS -- 14. The socio-cultural dimension of women’s labour force participation choices in Switzerland / Fabio LOSA and Pau ORIGONI -- 15. Gender equality, part-time work and segregation in Europe / Theo SPARREBOOM -- 16. Gender and labour in times of austerity: Ireland, Italy and Portugal in comparative perspective / Tindara ADDABBO, Amélia BASTOS, Sara Falcão CASACA, Nata DUVVURY and Aine Ní LÉIME -- Part IV - From unpaid to under-paid: The care-work continuum: 17. Care workers in Argentina : At the crossroads of labour market institutions and care services / Valeria ESQUIVEL -- 18. Underpaid and overworked : A cross national perspective on care workers, Shahra RAZAVI and Silke STAAB -- 19. How care-work employment shapes earnings in cross-national perspective / Michelle BUDIG and Joya MISRA -- 20. Discounted labour? Disaggregating care work in comparative perspective / Naomi LIGHTMAN -- 21. Hierarchies of care work in South Africa: Nurses, social workers and home-based care workers / Francie LUND -- 22. The expansion of social care and reform: Implications for care workers in the Republic of Korea / Ito PENG -- 23. Care arrangements and bargains : Anganwadi and paid domestic workers in India / Rajni PALRIWALA and N. NEETHA -- 24. Child care and geographical mobility in southern Europe / Ildefonso MENDEZ -- 25. The globalization of nurse migration : Policy issues and responses / Nicola YEATES -- Part V - Regulation of “women’s work”: A mixed record: 26. Night work of women in industry : Standards and sensibility / George POLITAKIS -- 27. Women in the Japanese labour market, 1947-2003 : A brief survey / Junko KUMAMOTO-HEALEY -- 28. Social security reform and gender equality : Recent experience in central Europe / Elaine FULTZ and Silke STEINHILBER -- 29. The ILO’s Domestic Workers Convention and Recommendation : A window of opportunity for social justice / Martin OELZ -- Part VI - Organization for empowerment and better work: 30. Collective bargaining and equality: Making connections / Adelle BLACKETT and Colleen SHEPPARD -- 31. Challenges facing nurses’ associations and unions: A global perspective / Paul CLARK and Darlene CLARK -- 32. Organizing migrant care workers in Israel : Industrial citizenship and the trade union option / Guy MUNDLAK and Hila SHAMIR -- 33. Can more inclusive wage-setting institutions improve low-wage work? Pay trends in the United Kingdom’s public-sector hospitals / Damian GRIMSHAW.